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Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers-takes a deep dive into the history of iconic album cover art. Images and additional information on Rolling Stones albums may be found at https://iorr.org/albums/. Find album art images at discogs.com by searching the album title. Look for a new episode each Friday.
Album Art-The Stories Behind Music's Iconic Album Covers
Anarchy--Chumbawamba | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
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A baby’s head emerging from a birth canal. That’s it. No skulls. No guns. No Satan. Just birth — the most ordinary, universal human event imaginable. And yet when Chumbawamba released Anarchy in 1994, record stores banned it, hid it under the counter, or sold it in plain sleeves.
Why did a photograph of life beginning cause more panic than most heavy-metal nightmares? Who decided it was obscene? And what does a Swedish medical photographer, a radical British band, and a design collective named after a terrorist group have to do with it?
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or check our Spotify Song List with a song from each album we’ve covered:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NrDU39yE9CJcHU6YJT8jj?si=Y1JAE4LWTDmKEDE9QGlB2A&pi=ly2xwE-ERRu-2